I ship
numbers
that move.

15 yrs
Building product
60k+
Users moved into new behavior
50×
Largest north-star lift shipped
Fintech / AI
Domain
SECTION I, DOSSIER

Product leader who built and scaled the growth organization at Gemini, and the operating system it runs on. Contributed to $75M+ in cumulative business impact across activation, retention, and engagement. Engineering foundation, business fluency, high ownership.

SECTION II, SELECTED WORK · BY THE NUMBERS
01
Building the Growth Org
Gemini · 2024 → ongoing

The work behind the work. Built the operating system, OKRs, prioritization rituals, accountability structures, then hired and coached 3 PMs into it. AI integrations and workflow automation lifted delivery velocity 50%.

+50%
Delivery velocity
02
Recurring Buy
Gemini · 2025

Education-first growth experience that moved 10% of monthly transacting users into autopilot investing, a 50× lift on baseline adoption.

+30,000
Users enrolled
03
Credit Card Cross-Sell
Gemini · 2024

Solved a distribution problem, not a product problem. Placed the cross-sell at peak intent in onboarding, 30× user growth.

30×
Card user growth
04
Referrals
Gemini · 2023 → ongoing

Built the foundational referral system in the trough of crypto winter, when paid acquisition stopped working. A compounding organic channel, multi-surface from exchange to credit card.

$35M+
Revenue attributed
05
Experimentation Platform
Gemini · 2022

Killed a $500K Optimizely contract, a quarter of IT budget, with an API-first in-house platform that connected experiments directly to our data lake. Built with 4 people, no scope creep.

10×
Experiment velocity
SECTION III, EARLIER WORK · TRAJECTORY
Whisper AI
AI hearing aid · acquired by Meta 2023
Director of Product · 2020–2021

First and only PM at a 60-person startup. Stood up the entire product function from scratch and built the end-to-end testing platform that gated audio-clarity validation, accelerating the iteration loop that fed the Meta acquisition.

iteration speed
Ample
EV battery swapping · Series B/C
Director of Product · 2018–2020

First product hire at a sub-10-person hardware startup. Player-coached a mechanical, electrical, and testing team and productized the computer-vision localization that put a sub-10-minute battery swap into production with 40 live Uber vehicles, fueling Series B and C.

40live Uber vehicles
Seagate
Hyperscale storage · $1B+ programs
Technical Product Lead · 2011–2018

Started in firmware, promoted to TPL. Led a 12-person team across the US, Thailand, and Singapore, translating Google and Microsoft requirements into next-generation drive specs. Built the framework Seagate adopted as standard, awarded U.S. Patent #20170220264.

$50M/ yr client TCO saved
SECTION IV, ABOUT

Where user value meets revenue.

Product leader with an engineering foundation and experience scaling teams, products, and revenue across fintech and AI businesses.

Helped scale a fintech platform from 300K to 600K MAUs while contributing to $75M+ in revenue across activation, retention, referrals, and recurring revenue initiatives. Built and led cross-functional teams across Product, Engineering, Data, Design, Marketing, and Legal, and established an experimentation-driven product culture that increased development velocity and improved decision-making across the organization.

Known for connecting product strategy to business outcomes, aligning teams around clear priorities, and building systems and processes that allow organizations to scale. Experience leading and building cross-functional product organizations, establishing product strategy, and implementing operating frameworks that enable teams to execute quickly and make better decisions.

Background includes firmware engineering at Seagate, AI infrastructure at Whisper, and product growth leadership at Gemini. Holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson with a focus on strategy, finance, and entrepreneurship.

Monish Sunku Prabhakar
NowAssociate Director, Product · Growth at Gemini.
AlsoConsulting VP of Product · agentic AI for healthcare ops (stealth) · 2025 → present.
Open toSenior product leadership roles in fintech and AI: Head of Product, GPM, Director, VP.
DomainsFinTech, AI and SaaS.
BackgroundRare three-way fluency: Product · Business · Tech. I set the strategy and vision, understand the ROI, and get into execution mode.
StrengthsProduct Strategy · Cross-Functional Leadership · Experimentation Culture · Operating Frameworks That Scale.
EducationMBA, UCLA Anderson · M.S. ECE, CU Boulder · B.E., VTU.
RecognitionU.S. Patent #20170220264 (Hyperscale Storage) · 2nd Place, HPE Case Competition, UCLA Anderson 2026.

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